Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The committee has to go on record and declare that a drastic reduction in these resources will place the parish structure of the Kirk in jeopardy and seriously damage its mission to the people of Scotland . ’ |
| 3 | There are two main points that the reader needs to bear in mind when reading the rest of this book , or any other on physiological psychology . |
| 4 | Mrs E , 47 , dependent on tranquillisers , wants to come off medication but fears her original problems may occur . |
| 5 | The Communists reacted by attacking " the half-Trotskyite ILP , a party that loves to talk of revolution and to shriek out " Left " phrases on every possible occasion " . |
| 6 | When a manager is faced with no financial resources he has to look for youth or experience to fill out his squad . |
| 7 | We need , therefore , to consider next what have been the most important practical issues , in the closing decades of the twentieth century , which political sociology has to represent in thought and embody in its explanatory or interpretive schemes . |
| 8 | He knows he is doing wrong but it is just that , in certain situations of moral dilemma he has to act in ways that involve violence . |
| 9 | He is clearly a very disturbed and emotionally rejected child because he deliberately urinates on the carpets and bedding , refuses to go to bed or stay in his own bed . |
| 10 | He is clearly a very disturbed and emotionally rejected child because he deliberately urinates on the carpets and bedding , refuses to go to bed or stay in his own bed . |
| 11 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 12 | You can use the TAB and BS keys to move between pages and press the RETURN key when viewing is complete . |
| 13 | And do n't forget that the money it costs to go to LA and to live there is eventually going to come out of your royalties , not the record company 's . |
| 14 | The rights and duties of individuals towards each other are together known as private law which in Anglo-Saxon countries , such as Britain and the United States , tends to derive from custom as incorporated by judges through time in what is known in Britain as the common law . |
| 15 | Institutions of the EEA would be an EEA Council ( one minister from each of the 19 countries and a representative of the EC Commission , chaired for six months alternately by an EC or an EFTA member ) , EEA courts to deal with disputes and to hear appeals on competition rulings , an EEA consultative committee , and an EEA joint parliamentary committee . |
| 16 | Webs without stabilimenta are more delicate ; the spider tends to build at night and take the web down before dawn , recycling the silk next evening . |
| 17 | Winner of the great race in 1978 with Lucius and then with Hallo Dandy in 1984 , Richards knows what it takes to win round Liverpool and do n't forget he was successful with The Antartex over the Aintree fences last year . |
| 18 | I barely hold back a hurrah , but can not stop myself from doing a backwards roll during which everything seems to go into slomo and clarify like a TV closeup : my backward roll begins , the picture outside the window slowly slips downward . |
| 19 | She seems to revel in arguments and loses no opportunity to declare her political principles . |
| 20 | And th there 's a lot of , for Sainsburys the , the feeling being that if Sainsburys also agreed to take it , that lots of other , if there are any others , would follow suit cos everybody seems to look at Sainsburys and see what they 're doing . |
| 21 | When he writes of prayer , he compares it with ‘ a lark rising from his bed of grass and soaring upwards , singing as he rises , and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ’ , and so the lark continues through clause after clause , buffeted by storms from which it takes refuge , until finally ‘ it did rise and sing , as if it had learned music and motion from an angel as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below ’ . |
| 22 | I do not know what it means to talk about conservation while idling away one 's leisure time in the killing of pheasants , foxes , deer and hares . |
| 23 | She continues to suffer from episcleritis and has also been found to have an ovarian cyst , but there is no clinical , radiological , or laboratory evidence of active Crohn 's disease . |
| 24 | It corresponds to a wave front of light from the star that just fails to escape to infinity but remains hovering at the Schwarzschild radius : 2 GM/c , where G is Newton 's constant of gravity , M is the mass of the star , and c is the velocity of light . |